Quotes About Fashion

After years of buying clothes I intend to diet into, I'll say this: the skeleton in my closet has some really nice outfits.

He is only fanastical that is not in fashion.

Maybe there would be a Tinker city someday, too. They would buy up all of the colored dye, and everyone else in the world would ave to wear brown.' -Mat

Has anyone ever told you that you should wear a hat? It would fit the missing eye quite well.' -Kathana to Mat

What's new?" is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow. I would like, instead, to be concerned with the question "What is best?

She kept her looks very well and continued, in a rather severe way, to pay attention to her dress. There were moments now when her laugh sounded a little hollow and brittle, the laughter of nerves not of mirth or good spirits. Occasionally in a conversation she seemed to lose track and fall into a self-absorption, to start up overwhelmed by embarrassment and unspoken remorse.... She was pushing thirty-five. But she could still be good company.

But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of wanton wealth array'd— In these, ere triflers half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain; And, e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.

All i want is a dress with puffy sleaves

She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.

to hike along a deep-rutted, pebbly lane in frail, silver-hued slippers with high French heels, is not an exhilirating experience.

Oh hearts that loved in the good old way have been out of fashion this many a day

Olive never had to wear flannel petticoats. Olive wore ruffled silk and sheer lawn and filmy laced flounces. But Olive's father had 'married money' and Olive never had Bronchitis. So there you were.

Miss Patty and Miss Maria are hardly such stuff as dreams are made of, laughed Anne. Can you fancy them `globe-trotting' -- especially in those shawls and caps? I suppose they'll take them off when they really begin to trot, said Priscilla, but I know they'll take their knitting with them everywhere. They simply couldn't be parted from it. They will walk about Westminster Abbey and knit, I feel sure...

But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress – because when you are imagining you might as well imagine something worthwhile –

that Rosemary is to wear white silk and a veil, but Ellen is to be married in navy blue. I have no doubt, Mrs. Dr. dear, that that is very sensible of her

away from a world where women bobbed their hair and you couldn't tell who were grandmothers and who were flappers—from behind

She was a little lady with snow-white hair beautifully wavy and thick, and carefully arranged in becoming puffs and coils. Beneath it was an almost girlish face, pink-cheeked and sweet-lipped, with big soft brown eyes and dimples . . . actually dimples. She wore a very dainty gown of cream muslin with pale-hued roses on it . . . a gown which would have seemed ridiculously juvenile on most women of her age, but which suited Miss Lavendar so perfectly that you never thought about it all.

is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

If skirts get any shorter, said the flapper with a sob, I'll have two more cheeks to powder and a lot more hair to bob!

I wondered why God created so many varieties of faiths in the world if He intended all of us to worship Him in the same fashion.

Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.--Augustus McCrae

tie a silk scarf around her neck and not have it be ironic.

They were the product of crafts that have, unfortunately, gone out of style, like long dresses, love letters, and the waltz. But for Tit and Pedro the waltz They Eyes of Youth, which the orchestra was playing at Pedro's request, would never go out of style.

Bad taste never dies. It just keeps evolving.